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but He will yet send out His angels to “gather out of His kingdom all things that
offend and them which do iniquity.” This is the inevitable concomitant of the setting
up of His earthly reign.

Christ cannot adjust Himself to anything that pertains to this present cosmic order.
When He rules it will be a government based upon the divine order of faith and
obedience, and He will brook no rival regime.

At His first advent, certain ones tried to force Him to be king in a part of a
Satan-dominated world. This He peremptorily refused to allow. Until He is ready to be
Lord of all, He refuses to bear outward rule at all.

There never was a time when “man‟s inhumanity to man (that) makes countless
thousands mourn” was more in evidence than when the Christ of God walked on earth,
and yet we search the record in vain for any polemic he ever delivered against vested

authority. He never inveighed against “social injustice” nor “thrust Himself athwart
the unsocial current of His time” as the socialist-modernist deceivers falsely contend.
He never allowed Himself to be involved in politics nor an arbitrator in civil disputes.
His ethical teachings and His instructions for a godly walk were always addressed to

His own followers, and it is only the mind that is diseased by Satan‟s lie that can
entertain the idea that He intended them as a code of conduct to be superimposed upon
a Satan-ruled world. He never inaugurated any revolutionary campaign nor any
improvement program to clean up society.

His acts of compassion and healing were the credentials of His own person and
power and were the evidences of His own compassion to individuals, victims of a
vicious order, and were performed to induce personal faith in Him on the part of those

who were the recipients of His grace and with a view to imparting to them eternal life.
At His first advent He never attempted any mass change of the status quo, though he
clearly revealed that the status quo would one day be changed and that completely and
catastrophically.

When Peter tried to put on a show of force at the time of His arrest and smote off
the ear of the servant of the High Priest, He promptly rebuked Peter and restored the

ear of Malchus. If His kingdom had been of this world-system He would have ordered
His servants to fight, but instead He said, “Suffer ye thus far!” He submitted Himself
to the denizens of death, saying, “This is your hour and the power of darkness!”
“Suffer it to be so now; for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness” given on
the occasion of His baptism, was the watchword of His earthly sojourn.

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